Study of Carbon-Bearing Particles in Ascending Geogas Flows in the Dongshengmiao Polymetallic Pyrite Deposit, Inner Mongolia, China

Resource Geology

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 13-26

  Hu, Guai ^a   Cao, Jianjin ^a,b   Hopke, Philip K ^c   Holub, Robert Frantisek ^c,d  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Mineral Resource Exploration and Geological Processes   (China)

^c CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon bearing particles; Concealed deposit; Dongshengmiao deposit; Geogas prospecting; TEM study

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; ELEMENTAL CARBON; METALLOGENESIS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MINERALIZATION; ORGANIC MATTER; PYRITE;

CHINA; NEI MONGGOL;

EID: 84919775598     PISSN: 13441698     EISSN: 17513928     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rge.12055     Document Type: Article

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